Category Archives: Kurdistan

Global Conflicts. My Online Course Syllabus

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Dr Gerard Toal

    I’ve been teaching ‘global conflicts’ at Virginia Tech for over twenty years, initially as an undergraduate course called “Geography of Global Conflicts.” In 1995, I offered the course online for the first time. The course has evolved considerably … Continue reading →

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Top 5 Things I learnt at “The PKK, Kurdish Nationalism and Future of Turkey” Conference

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Dr Gerard Toal

Our program hosted this conference which was mostly organized by Tugrul Keskin, a VT graduate now at Portland State University and Kemal Silay, Director of the Turkish Studies program at Indiana University, at 1021 Prince Street, Alexandria yesterday. We received … Continue reading →

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Chemical Warfare and Place: Lessons from Halabja

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Dr Gerard Toal

As the United States and France consider military strikes in retaliation against the Assad regime it is worth recalling the use of chemical weapons by Saddam Hussein’s regime in Halabja, north east Iraqi Kurdistan on 16 March 1988. It is … Continue reading →

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